NAZI METHODS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 January 1940, Page 5

NAZI METHODS

APPALLING RUTHLESSNESS IN POLAND

NATIONAL RACIAL EXTERMINATION. GERMAN GENERAL PROTESTS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, January 30. The “New York Times” correspondent, Mr Tolischus, in a message from Berlin says: “The German representations to the Vatican are apparently part of a counter-campaign designed to discredit reports which actually are more copious and more alarming in German than to an outsider. They were brought or sent by officials or police, either deploring or boasting of the methods in Poland, but agreeing that what is happening is little less than national racial extermination. The description of the methods employed circulating in Germany are so appalling that only an impartial investigation will ever establish the truth, but few Germans doubt their accuracy, especially since it is known that General Blaskowitz protested against the methods employed.

ATROCITIES IN POLAND CATHOLICS’ EVIDENCE ACCEPTED BEFORE NAZIS.’ COMMENT BY ITALIAN PAPER. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. ROME, January 30. The newspaper “Avvenire,” commenting on a German denial of the anti-Catholic atrocities in Poland, says that the direct evidence of Catholics in this connection is preferable to the Nazi official declarations, whose meaning is only too well known to give the words of them ordinary significance. PRIEST EXECUTED. ALLEGED MILITARY ACTIVITY. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. BERLIN, January 29. A High Command communique states that a Polish priest was courtmartialled for military activity and executed. MODERN CHEVALIERS GIVING LIVES FOR VICTORY OF JUSTICE. PADEREWSKI BROADCASTS. (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) RUGBY, January 30. M Paderewski, broadcasting to the United States, said: “Two worlds are at war —one of bloody barbarity and the other of determination to uphold and protect liberty and human dignity. Who can doubt which world will triumph? These modern chevaliers are giving their lives for the victory of justice. Poland has been the first to make a sacrifice in the cause of freedom.”

POLAND’S MARTYRDOM TOLL LEVIED BY GERMANY. EIGHTEEN THOUSAND LEADERS KILLED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.10 am.) RUGBY, January 30. The full measure of the martyrdom of Poland is slowly being realised and the publication in Paris of regular reports, three times monthly, of information from Poland permits of a more complete picture’of the trend of events there. In the latest of these reports estimates are given of the numbers of Polish leaders who have been killed since Germany conquered Poland. The figure is 18.000 and does not include persons bombed and machine-gunned during the period of fighting.